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Why You Should Use a Mobile Banking App – and How to Make the Most of It

Why You Should Use a Mobile Banking App – and How to Make the Most of It

Mobile banking is a wonder of the modern world, and yet it’s also something that not everyone takes advantage of in spite of its many ..

Top 4 (Unexpected) Benefits of Remittances

Top 4 (Unexpected) Benefits of Remittances

By Jairo Riveros, chief strategy officer and managing director of the U.S. and Latin America at Paysend The reliance on remittances co..

How Open Banking will change the banking industry in the next 10 years

How Open Banking will change the banking industry in the next 10 years

By James Hickman, CCO of Ecospend. In 2016, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published a report on the UK’s ret..

Invest In Infrastructure To Escape The ‘Starvation Cycle’, Warns Leading Nonprofit Sector Strategist

Invest In Infrastructure To Escape The ‘Starvation Cycle’, Warns Leading Nonprofit Sector Strategist

By Mark Salway, Sector Advisory Lead for iplicit, discusses the ‘trap’ that catches out many mid-sized nonprofit organisat..

Assurance v Security: Reassessing Responsibility for Data Assurance

Assurance v Security: Reassessing Responsibility for Data Assurance

The adoption of Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) has exploded in recent years as companies embrace the lower costs and fle..

How collaboration technologies are helping organisations to embrace a hybrid working model

How collaboration technologies are helping organisations to embrace a hybrid working model

By Matt Weston, Managing Director, Vantage 365 It is sometimes easy to forget that, for such a long time prior to the even..

Are markets being too optimistic?

Are markets being too optimistic?

By Rupert Thompson, Chief Economist at Kingswood Global equities had another quietish week, albeit including a 3% mid-week..

Occupational Health and Safety must be brought back to the forefront of ESG

Occupational Health and Safety must be brought back to the forefront of ESG

By Brondwyn Douglas, senior ESG officer at Spear Capital.  We have recently entered into an era wherein sustainability has..

Mobile Marketing: challenges and opportunities over the festive period and beyond

Mobile Marketing: challenges and opportunities over the festive period and beyond

By Arunabh Madhur, Regional VP & Head Business EMEA at SHAREit Group The festive season is a make-or-break time of yea..

What the Future Holds For Financial Institutions in 2023

What the Future Holds For Financial Institutions in 2023

As 2022 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on the payments trends we’ve seen erupt this year and discuss w..

U.N. summit aims for global pact to protect nature

U.N. summit aims for global pact to protect nature

By Gloria Dickie and Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) – Countries are gathering Tuesday for a key U.N. nature conference in Mo..

Explainer-What’s on the agenda at the U.N.’s COP15 nature summit?

Explainer-What’s on the agenda at the U.N.’s COP15 nature summit?

By Gloria Dickie MONTREAL (Reuters) – A key United Nations summit to halt nature loss begins this week in Montreal, Canada. Dele..

Factbox-How governments are trying to ease inflation pain

Factbox-How governments are trying to ease inflation pain

(Reuters) – Pandemic-related disruptions to global supply chains and the knock-on effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine have ..

Adnami appoints Jeetesh Luhar as International Sales Director

Adnami appoints Jeetesh Luhar as International Sales Director

Jeetesh joins as Adnami doubles down on growth; moving to scale up mode in the UK and beyond  Ad tech company, Adnami, has appointed J..

Anya Libova joins Apester as UK Managing Director

Anya Libova joins Apester as UK Managing Director

Senior appointment follows the hire of media veteran Itay Gissin as CEO  Apester has announced the appointment of Anya Libova as UK Ma..

Emergency call services, telcos urge EU to protect telecoms networks from power cuts

Emergency call services, telcos urge EU to protect telecoms networks from power cuts

By Elvira Pollina, Supantha Mukherjee and Mathieu Rosemain MILAN/STOCKHOLM/PARIS (Reuters) – Europe’s top telecoms operato..

First winter cold snap tests French power grid

First winter cold snap tests French power grid

PARIS (Reuters) – Temperatures hovering near zero in coming days will test the resilience of France’s power network, even ..

EU seeks deal on law preventing import of deforestation-linked goods

EU seeks deal on law preventing import of deforestation-linked goods

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union will attempt to clinch a deal on Monday evening on a law to prevent compa..

Greece, Britain discussing Parthenon Sculptures return but deal not close, Athens says

Greece, Britain discussing Parthenon Sculptures return but deal not close, Athens says

By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) – The Greek government on Monday quashed local media reports that a deal with Britain over th..

Historic crown to be modified for King Charles’s coronation

Historic crown to be modified for King Charles’s coronation

LONDON (Reuters) – The historic St Edward’s Crown, which has been the centrepiece of the coronation of monarchs in England..

Shares slip, yields rise as U.S. data sparks rate hike concerns

Shares slip, yields rise as U.S. data sparks rate hike concerns

By Herbert Lash and Elizabeth Howcroft NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -Global stocks slid and Treasury yields rose on Monday as investors i..

Sterling slips as boost from new China COVID rules fades

Sterling slips as boost from new China COVID rules fades

By Amanda Cooper LONDON (Reuters) – The pound slid on Monday, as an initial jolt of investor enthusiasm over signs of possible l..

BIS warns of $80 trillion of hidden FX swap debt

BIS warns of $80 trillion of hidden FX swap debt

By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has warned that pension funds and other ‘non..

ECB’s Makhlouf expects 50 bps rate hike in December

ECB’s Makhlouf expects 50 bps rate hike in December

(Corrects first paragraph to say rates ‘may have to move into restrictive territory’, not ‘would have to’) By ..

UK new car sales rise in November, fail to zoom past 2019 levels- SMMT

UK new car sales rise in November, fail to zoom past 2019 levels- SMMT

(Reuters) – British new car registrations jumped nearly 24% in November from a year earlier to record their fourth straight mont..

Oil prices rise after OPEC+ keeps output steady, Russian price cap imposed

Oil prices rise after OPEC+ keeps output steady, Russian price cap imposed

By Noah Browning LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices rose on Monday after OPEC+ nations held their output targets steady ahead of a European ..

Tax credits for EU electric vehicles to dominate Monday’s trade talks with U.S

Tax credits for EU electric vehicles to dominate Monday’s trade talks with U.S

Tax credits for EU electric vehicles to dominate Monday’s trade talks with U.S By David Lawder COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Reuters) -Top ..

Euro zone likely heading into mild recession-PMI

Euro zone likely heading into mild recession-PMI

LONDON (Reuters) – Euro zone business activity declined for a fifth month in November, suggesting the economy was sliding into a..

Volkswagen to discuss new software roadmap on Dec. 15 -Handelsblatt

Volkswagen to discuss new software roadmap on Dec. 15 -Handelsblatt

BERLIN (Reuters) – Volkswagen Chief Executive Oliver Blume will present a long-delayed new software strategy for the carmaker at..

Trafigura enters $3 billion loan to supply Germany’s Sefe with gas

Trafigura enters $3 billion loan to supply Germany’s Sefe with gas

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Commodities trading firm Trafigura on Monday said it has entered into a $3 billion four-year loan to suppl..

Asia shares bank on eventual China opening; oil gains

Asia shares bank on eventual China opening; oil gains

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares extended their rally on Monday as investors hoped steps to unwind pandemic restric..

China’s patchy COVID easing sows confusion but comforts investors

China’s patchy COVID easing sows confusion but comforts investors

By Ryan Woo and Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) -A partial easing of the world’s toughest COVID-19 curbs sowed confusion a..

Dollar soft as China reopening hopes boost risk sentiment

Dollar soft as China reopening hopes boost risk sentiment

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar struggled to gain a foothold on Monday and was languishing at five-month lows as traders looked..

U.S., France agreed to “fix” U.S. subsidies issues, says Macron

U.S., France agreed to “fix” U.S. subsidies issues, says Macron

(Reuters) -President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed during a state visit earlier this week to “fix”..

UK economy to shrink in 2023, risks ‘lost decade’: CBI

UK economy to shrink in 2023, risks ‘lost decade’: CBI

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s economy is on course to shrink 0.4% next year as inflation remains high and..

Crypto broker Genesis owes Gemini’s customers $900 million – FT

Crypto broker Genesis owes Gemini’s customers $900 million – FT

(Reuters) -Crypto broker Genesis and its parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG) owe customers of the Winklevoss twins’ cryp..

Analysis-Energy hungry Europe can’t look to U.S. shale to fill any OPEC gap

Analysis-Energy hungry Europe can’t look to U.S. shale to fill any OPEC gap

By Laila Kearney, Liz Hampton and Arathy Somasekhar NEW YORK/DENVER/HOUSTON (Reuters) – U.S. shale oil drillers turned from scra..